Another dumped kitten.

[Hurr1cane]

This time they found the box as well. Last time it was 4 of them and mine adopted them so they thought they were hers and I took them in. This time they've realised someone must be dumping them. Only one found. Exactly the same age as the other ones when they were found and looks exactly the same

I've taken it in for now but I can't keep it on indefinitely because my 4 have a delicate balance as it is.

Why do people do that

Damp flannel? You wouldn't need soap on it. You could stimulate its bottom while your doing it and use the flannel to catch anything.

What on earth has that poor kitten been through to be so scared of people.

You must be shattered with all of this.

I'll have a go with a damp flannel later that's a really good idea. I don't have a clue. The other ones at least had some fight in them, they weren't scared of me just a bit cautious and very hissy and scratchy at first.

This one just shakes and looks at you like you're about to throw it at a wall or something

I've given her a wash down with a damp cloth and managed to get 4 pieces of kitten food into her. But now she's shaking violently with the cold so I've got her wrapped in a towel on my lap. She has absolutely no fight in her at all. Feral kitten would allow herself to be wrapped up like this because she's been hand raised as would ragdoll, but the others would rip my face off if I tried this. Poor girl

Poor girl :(

Feral kitten is following us round jealous.

The neighbours Found another and there's two more stuck in some poor mans shed.

Aww no way. Horrible people. I would so take one if we were near!

This one isn't timid though. And it's teeth are very sharp. I think it's eaten half of my hand.

And my poor little boy has been bitten by a child at school as well

Oh dear, wish I could give you some help. Is Timidkitten perking up now that his brother/sister is there?

On the bright side it's eaten solids?

Our neighbour who used to drown his cats kittens would wait until they were 8-10 wks old because the cute factor was fading and the kids had got bored of them but these seem really young.

It's odd to dump them like this. There aren't being bred as dog bait or for profit. Someone's trying to hide what there doing by dumping them too young to survive.

This is all very odd & of course costing you money now to rear them.

I hope cpl phone you back.

I'm not sure I haven't looked yet I've just put it in the bed and cleaned up my hands. There's two more under the shed so I'm going back in ten minutes to see if I can catch them with said neighbour (they were very scared by the noise of us catching that one and ran and hid so he's keeping an eye out from a distance to see if they'll come out again.

Your poor boy

Aaand that's 4, all 4 kittens, two of which savaged me so badly that my thumb feels numb :/

Is it possible there's an un-neutered female living wild near you who is abandoning kittens?.

You expect cats to be good mums but maybe there's one near you who isn't maternal?.

These don't sound like kittens who've lived with humans.

:(

All caught and sexed now. I'm pretty sure this is all of them.

We do live near some woods, but we also live on a pretty rough estate so anything is possible

If they're in a shed it's almost certain their mum put them there and she is still around. She is probably feral herself, although she may once have been someone's pet. You really need to get the mum trapped, and that can be done by using a kitten as bait in a trap. For that though you're going to need specialist equipment and help.

You need to put another call through to Cats Protection I think.

They were outside the shed near the woods when we found them but when they were trying to catch them they ran into the shed, we live right near the edge of the woods and there was a box that the one they found first was in but it bit them when they got it out and legged it if you see what I mean

When we had a feral kitten she had been living in our shed and ran in there when we first found her.

I'd rather it was a feral mum than a person doing this.

Ah, I see, sorry I didn't read the whole thread. How awful. Best of luck with them.

Unfortunately kittens are abandoned all the time. On my tiny road alone this year a trio of kittens and a month later a pair were found abandoned in front gardens.

And our rescue is taking them in all the time, often abandoned in bins and in boxes next to bins etc. It's just dreadful

Thecatneuterer. It seems like I have run out of friends to adopt them after last time. What is the most sensible way to rehome them when they're ready? Obviously not on any 'free to good home' sites?

But it did leg it to the shed where all the others were found. So it might have come out of the shed to go look in the box? Or is it more likely that the rest of them got out and went to the warm shed as it was the first place they could see?

Well through your nearest rescue would be the obvious way. Even if they can't take them in they can feature them on their website as being fostered and so field potential homes that way.

Yy, my nearest is a Blue Cross and they actually have a waiting list for people wanting kittens.